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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICEQ JAMES E. GOWEN, OF PEABODY, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND GEORGE TENNEY, OF SAME PLACE.

WEATl-l ER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,516, dated February 8, 1881. Application filed August 21, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES E. GowEN, of Peabody, in the county of Marion and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Weather-Strip, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a self-adjusting weather-strip for doors.

Figure l is a front elevation of the device on an open door, with parts broken away to exhibit other parts. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the device on a closed door, showing a portion of a covering-plate. Fig.3 is a plan view on line a: :0, Fig. 1, and of the attached covering-plate. Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents a door hinged to the rear jamb, B. 0 is the frontjamb, and D the door-sill.

E is a molding secured across the door A, near the bottom thereof, by screws a, a, and having inserted in a central vertical socket, b, a spring, 0, that projects downward below the edge of said molding E into a corresponding socket, c, in the sliding bar F, and along its front edge the said molding E is provided with a downward-projecting lip, cl, which, in combination with the door A, forms a groove, f, in which the upper edge of the sliding bar F moves.

On the lower edge of said sliding bar F are one or more (in this instance two) downwardprojecting teeth, g 9, whose forward edges are vertical or at right angles to said bar F, while their rear edges areinclined upward at an angle of about forty-five degrees. These teeth 9 g engage in corresponding recesses It h in the weather-strip proper, G, which consists of a strip of wood or metal having verticallyslotted screw or bolt holes i, through which pass the screws or bolts k that hold it to the door A, and is provided with a strip of rubber or other elastic material, H, that is inserted longitudinally and at an outward inclination in the lower edge of said strip G, so as to rest upon the sill D when the door A is closed.

Springs I I, held by pins m in suitable sockets 'niii the strip G, and having their free ends resting on the screws or bolts it, serve to force and hold up the said strip G when the door A is opened, the slotted screw or bolt holes 6, permitting the vertical movement of said strip G.

When, in closing the door A, the forward end of the sliding barFcomes in contact with the door-jainb U, as shown in Fig. 2, the said bar F is pushed rearward with the effect of forcibly pressing the inclined planes of its teeth 9 g against the corresponding planes of the recesses h h, and thereby urging the weath er-strip G downward and holding its elastic strip H in close contact with the sill D, as shown in Figs.2 and I. ()n opening the door A the tension of the spring cserves to restore the sliding bar F to its primary position, and the tension of the springs l I serves to restore the weather-strip G to its primary position, as shown in Fig. 1.

K represents a plate secured upon the molding E, and extending downward to cover the bar F and strip G.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the doorA and doorjainb U, of the molding E, provided with spring 0, sliding bar F, provided with socket c and teeth 1 g, having inclined edges, and weather-strip G, provided with elastic bottom strip, H, slotted screw-holes i, springs I I, and inclined recesses h h, and screws or bolts k, substantially as herein shown and described.

JAMES E. GOWEN.

Witnesses:

THos. OSBORNE, I. GROVER. 

